A Netherlands-based solidarity group for the Philippines submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) today on the war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law committed by the United States-supported regimes of the current Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his predecessor Rodrigo Roa Duterte. “Recently, the ICC Prosecutor stated his application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We now challenge the ICC to do the same for the Filipino people: investigate the war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law of

BRUSSELS, BE — The International Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on Saturday May 18th issued a guilty verdict to Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Rodrigo Duterte, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the United States government for war crimes against the Filipino people and violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL).  In a 10-page decision signed by an international panel of jurors including former legal counsel to Nelson Mandela, Prof. Lennox Hinds, the tribunal found “a steady rise in cases of abduction and enforced disappearance perpetrated by GRP

BRUSSELS, BE – The International People’s Tribunal (IPT) on the war crimes of the US-backed Duterte and Marcos Jr. regimes convened on Thursday May 17th in Brussels, hearing opening statements from the tribunal’s prosecution team, as well as testimonies from expert witnesses and war crime victims.  “While the US trumpet their support for the ICC’s case against Duterte, their concurrent backing and financing of Marcos Jr.’s ‘counterinsurgency’ programs in the Philippines–rife with violations of international humanitarian law–exposes their blatant hypocrisy on human rights. This selective condemnation underscores a